He wound up netting $300 - just enough to cover the cost of the phone.ĭepending on the amount of storage, the iPhone 4 sells for $199 or $299 with a two-year contract.Are there apple orchards in Charleston, SC? Well, no. Wednesday, sold his spot early Thursday for $500, then paid another customer $200 to get back in line. Jordan Richardson, who waited outside the Chicago store since 7 a.m.
To keep the die-hard iPhone fans dry, the store handed out black umbrellas with white Apple logos. In downtown Chicago, several customers waited overnight through severe thunderstorms and even defied tornado sirens that wailed around the city. to San Francisco, Apple employees continued the tradition of providing bottled water, coffee, bagels and even cupcakes. In front of them, McHenry said, two men threatened to fight each other rather than move.įrom Cherry Hill, N.J. "It's a mess."Īfter employees at the Apple store started yelling that the fire marshal was going to shut the store down unless people moved back, the couple got shoved behind a large group of people who refused to budge from their spots. "There's no coordination between the mall employees, security and law enforcement," said Loren McHenry, 42, shaking his head in disbelief. They returned only to learn that 120 people had camped out at a nearby parking lot. Wednesday and were told no one was allowed on mall property overnight. In Aventura, Fla., Loren and Veronica McHenry held out hope after miscommunications landed them at the back of the line.
In Paris, 24-year-old shoe salesman Julien Remy went to buy one during his lunch break, only to learn the store had run out of the higher-capacity model he wanted. "They have been advertising and hyping for months," administrative assistant Jasmine Cordova, 25, said outside New York's Fifth Avenue store. Customers in line were left guessing about whether they'd get one. Those who didn't place an iPhone 4 order had to line up outside Apple stores Thursday in the hopes of snagging one on a first-come, first-served basis. On Apple's website, new orders weren't promised for delivery until July 14. More than 600,000 people had rushed to pre-order iPhones on the first day they were available, prompting Apple and its exclusive wireless partner in the U.S., AT&T Inc., to stop taking orders for pickup or shipment by Thursday's launch. "I'm probably going to spend all morning playing with it." "I'm like a kid in a candy store," Hill said. Sean Hill, 39, a Washington police officer who pre-ordered an iPhone, smiled and proudly held it up for the crowd to see as he left the newly opened Apple store in the Georgetown neighborhood.
Apple called the demand for the phone "off the charts" and said it's working hard to get phones into customers' hands as quickly as possible. Some stores, including ones in Tokyo, Miami, San Francisco and Charlotte, sold out within hours as the iPhone 4 went on sale. The first two people in line had been waiting since 2:00pm Wednesday. All were waiting to purchase the new phone, with at least 200 people camping out overnight to guarantee a spot in line. Columbia doesn't have an Apple store, but about 500 people were lined up by 9:00am at the Apple store on King Street in downtown Charleston.
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